Communities of the Broken and Blessed

Read Genesis 2.18-24; Mark 10.2-16 Pentecost +19B This passage is often listed among the “hard sayings” of Jesus, but “painful,” “distressing,” or “agonising” would be more like it because each time this passage is read and heard in a congregation, many of us cringe. We cringe feeling assaulted by it directly, or we start worrying that others are being assaulted.